Keith Fenn and Simon Foster child rapists get double time
After yet another judge who let a couple of child abusers namely Keith Fenn, 25 and Simon Foster, 26 get off likely for raping children and fortunatly common sense prevailed when an appeal court judge doubled the unduly lienient sentences. Attorney General Baroness Scotland asked the appeal court judges to reconsider the sentences to send a message that such offences would not be tolerated. The court heard that the girls, who cannot be identified, appeared older than they were and told Foster and Fenn that they were 15 and 16 respectively. However, Lord Justice Latham said he had no hesitation in finding that the two-year sentences imposed in each case were "unduly lenient". He added: "A child under 13 cannot give consent in law to any sexual activity. "This is classically the sort of circumstance in which young girls require the protection of the courts in the form of significant sentences." He said that a four-year sentence should be the "minimum starting point", subject to any mitigating factors in the case, even where there is "ostensible consent and a reasonable belief that the victim was 16 or over My opinion Whilst four years still isn’t enough to prevent a child abuser from re-offending it is certainly much better than the two years the original judge handed out. Child abuse needs to be taken more seriously by judges and sentencing should reflect the serious crime of child abuse. Child abuse is fast becoming almost acceptable behaviour in a court of law and it’s about time the shoddy legal system was addressed onit’s failures to protect children. Other lesser crimes carry longer sentences and most of society want to see a shake up in the law that lets us and children down but the government fail to act on what ordinary people want. Next entry: Books. True endurance and survival, child abuse & misery genre Previous entry: Guilty of child abuse (well our version) (times)
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